box office: week of July 2

indiewire's weekly box office recap:

Pedro Almodovar's "I'm So Excited" led a generally underwhelming sextet of specialty debuts this weekend, grossing $103,000 from just 5 screens. That made for a $20,600 average, the highest of any film in release, including studio chart toppers "Monsters University"...
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Jean-Luc Godard's acclaimed "Goodbye to Language," which despite its initial success at the IFC Center in New York has found rough sledding finding theaters because of the lack of 3D-equipped appropriate venues in many prime markets, has found a home in Los Angeles.

Three of the year's most buzzed festival titles opened this weekend. Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' is the easy initial leader of the three, with two-city totals surpassing all new films since 'Birdman,' including last weekend's top player 'The Theory of Everything.'

Final reported grosses are in for the Top Ten, and the results are less positive for two films than initially reported. As we predicted Sunday, Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated 'Interstellar' did not gross $50 million for the three-day weekend.